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Private towing companies are hesitant to help clear the protester trucks, citing safety concerns.

Tow trucking industry doesn't want to get involved 'for numerous reasons,' says Mark GravesPolice tow a truck on Feb.

13, 2022 after a court injunction gave police the power to clear the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont.

 

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Did you see the Ottawa Police tow trucks at all in your reporting or are you blind. Do you think that Ottawa doesn't own heavy equipment and other tow trucks to support their infrastructure? All which could have been employed in the beginning. Emergencies act for a tow truck.

I'd be more worried of no one using your services ever again because they will go under

Hf

They won't use military tow trucks but they didn't say they can't use the military tow truck operators to do the job using these businesses' tow trucks...

Oh dear

The government is only concerned about the safety of privileged, suburban whites. Front line/essential workers haven't mattered from the start of this thing and never will.

I say BS to the towing companies, most of you guys have baseball bats, chains and guns at the ready 🤔 towtruckwars

I’m sure they’ll be fine. It’s a “peaceful protest.”

Ottawa tow trucks should get their head out of their a$& it’s the police who can decide which tow truck gets called to get roads open fast not the truck driver. The city can also bar them from city contracts too

Would it help if a GoFundMe for Ottawa Towing Companies that will certainly be harassed and threatened, perhaps suffer damages, to get rid of the dumtrucks?

So long as they have a strong police presence, they should be fine.

Police are there to ensure their safety. If they can’t accept the jobs, their business licenses should be revoked. There are plenty of entrepreneurs waiting for a chance to start new towing companies.

You mean the mob is afraid?

It’s Not safety… it’s SOLIDARITY! Think CBC… think!

I learnt a lot from the CBC. Sikh's, Chinese and African Canadians at the peaceful protest are actually white supremacist neo-nazis. If anyone smugglers guns into Canada during the protest- pin it on the protestors. The peaceful protestors are planning to mass murder the RCMP.

It doesn't matter if you like or dislike tow truck drivers. You really can't blame any business atm that is indirectly involved in this shitshow and are hesitant to choose a side on it.

It's not a safety concern. It's the fact they're NOT a small fringe minority and like being a snitch in a prison, they know if you go against one trucker, you go against them all. Even the ones not supporting the convoy. It would be business suicide.

That's stupid cause the rcmpgrcpolice & OPP_News would be protecting the towing companies when they move those rigs from the streets in Ottawa.

Well the ones who are, should lose all government contracts, sad, complain about work and then won't do the job, bass ackwards!

Call the Toronto tow trucks. These guys don’t care who you are. Plus you fu$& with them you will get it back.

I don't buy their story about the 'risks involved'. Towing is one business that has always involved huge risk and the potential for injury/damage. When there is a huge pile-up on the 401, they come from miles around! They won't admit their bias is all!

The freedumb convoy represents a small, small group of people. I’d be more concerned about the reaction from the citizens of Ottawa if they continue to resist doing the right thing.

Shut them down. It is not that hard.

So all their work is from 350 trucks stuck in downtown Ottawa? Wow. That’s a cop out if I ever heard one.

Get them from Detroit.

A business can’t refuse to provide service to a group of customers, in this case the government, and then claim to be neutral.

Right now tow truck drivers have a heart. Please I saw one eat a raw deer he just ran over.

The city should cancel contracts with towing bz. that do not want to stand behind the city's best interests. Quite sure there are tons of entrepreneurals from all across the country to fill that void. Residents of Ottawa, take note who you should not be hiring in the future.

Trudeau will lose.

Tow truck drivers are not armed like they were in the 70s. So they risk harming their equipment and drivers for weak constitution of a liberal politician ( Trudeau )that couldn't answer a straight question with a straight direct answer. Just like his father.

We can easily dump/move these trucks later after We bundle up all the wacko extremist with their Guns, Body Armours, Jacuzzis etc & move them all to, their choice of, a bare Island or Trump/Tucker Carlson's lands where they get their Masks&.Vacs free life happily forever

Pull the licenses of uncooperative towing companies and their drivers.

So much for their freedom

These people?

But I thought they’re peaceful protesters. They would never intimidate or harass people would they?

Then they are just proving the Emergencies Act was necessary from multiple level of governments.

Bring the military in… carpet bomb them!!!! 😡

This is why OPS needs its own fleet of towtrucks. Would solve so many issues.

Hot wire and drive them to the impound.

Maybe the government should be more concerned about why the people hate the system than condemning truckers.

Why would they? Doing the dirty work just to be doxxed and shamed regardless of their views on this. It’s a death sentence either way

Time for towing companies to do some major 'maintenance' Sorry Trudeau waiting on parts truck delivery ...oh ya Truckers should just boycott Ottawa They don't like trucks in their city , fine no trucks for a 500 km radius

Good for them! I applaud them

Career suicide

Good time to move to Ottawa and start my own business 👨‍💼. That is a good 👍 entrepreneur spirit

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Nationalize them

Simple. They refuse to tow the convoy trucks then cancel their lucrative towing contracts for the city and where ever else they can. Maybe some inspections of their tow trucks and shops are in order also. Ottawa needs to buck up FFS. Enough of this snowflake shit.

There are many ways to clear trucks, so long as you don't mind if they don't function as trucks afterwards.

Can't the police provide safety for the towing companies?

Maybe a state funded news organization isn't the best thing for a country.

This is not politics. This is brotherhood. Truckers, big or small. We do it all. TrudeauForTreason

Then use military tow trucks.

Don't wanna tow their friends...

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